Chapter 1

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My girlfriend's male best friend suffers from sleepwalking. When he wakes up, he always finds himself holding my girlfriend in his arms. Concerned, I recommended a reputable therapist for him, but when my girlfriend found out, she flew into a rage.

"He's just my bestie! Are you jealous of even my best friend?"

"We've grown up together since we were kids. If anything was going to happen, it would have happened long ago!"

Outside, rain poured down in torrents. Feeling insulted, the male best friend left in anger. The next day, his body was found in the suburbs.

My girlfriend threw herself into my arms, her face contorted with grief, saying I was all she had left now.

But three years later, during another heavy downpour, she kicked my mother with Alzheimer's and our daughter out of the house.

When I confronted her, she looked at me with a crazed expression and said, "It's all because you had to find some therapist. He only hugged me, nothing else. You humiliated him like that. You're the one who killed him. Now it's time for you to taste my pain!"

Only then did I realize that she had never gotten over the death of her male best friend.Later, I found my mother and daughter, and proposed divorce to her. But at this moment, her male best friend unexpectedly came back from the dead.

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When I heard Luna's words, I froze completely, my hand poised to pick up the phone suspended rigidly in mid-air.

"Do you know how heartbroken I was then?"

"Donavan and I grew up together. If you hadn't insisted on introducing him to a therapist, would he have broken down and run out into the pouring rain?"

"This is all your fault. Donavan died, and you shouldn't get off easy either. Today, I drove your mom and daughter out into the heavy rain just to make you feel the same despair I felt back then!"

I stared at Luna standing before me, each of her words piercing my chest like a sharp sword.

The phone lying on the ground was still on the page to dial 911. After seeing the footage of my mother and daughter being forced out of the house through the security cameras, my first instinct was to call the police.

But Luna smashed my phone to the ground.

In this heavy downpour, if I don't call the police to find them quickly, my mother and daughter will be in danger.With trembling hands and a heavy heart, I reached for my phone. But at that moment, Luna kicked it out of my grasp. The device crashed against the wall, shattering instantly.

I looked at Luna with tear-filled eyes. "Are you really going to stand by and watch as my mother and daughter are in danger?"

"So what if I do? They left on their own. In this downpour, if they're not complete idiots, they'll find shelter. But my Donavan... he's never coming back."

At the mention of Donavan, her eyes turned red with defiance.

My body shook, each breath becoming a struggle. "What about Tallulah? Our daughter... what has she done wrong? You're her mother. You carried her for nine months and gave birth to her. Was it all just to abandon her in the rain? She's so young... how can you be so heartless?"

"Daughter? I'd rather not have given birth to a child with a murderer like you!"

Luna's cold gaze pierced my heart like a dagger.

Looking into her emotionless eyes, I finally understood. For these past three years, she had never let go of her grief over Donavan's death.

But I still couldn't believe it. After all, during our three years of marriage, she had always been the picture of a loving wife and mother - gentle, caring, and sophisticated.